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Norman D. Landings wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 7:25 am
Good fun to assemble, and blissfully free of the rubber-track bullshit of the Airfix days of yore.

Oh yes they were a bloody nightmare - never fitted properly and wouldnt take any known form of glue

I just assembled a warlord Tiger. hard plastic tracks which came in 4 separate parts each and were a bitch to get aligned. Only after it was all finished did i remember that i hadnt painted the road wheel tyres. ffs

I found with the Warlord Tiger 1 that I assembled, that if I was struggling with the tracks, I had the short parts the wrong way round. The minute I got them correct, it fitted easily.

goat major wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 8:29 am

Norman D. Landings wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 7:25 am
Good fun to assemble, and blissfully free of the rubber-track bullshit of the Airfix days of yore.

Oh yes they were a bloody nightmare - never fitted properly and wouldnt take any known form of glue

I just assembled a warlord Tiger. hard plastic tracks which came in 4 separate parts each and were a bitch to get aligned. Only after it was all finished did i remember that i hadnt painted the road wheel tyres. ffs

Nah, those Airfix tracks were simple. I just put the two little lugs into the holes and stapled the bo**ocks out of them. The stapled end went on the top of the wheels
under the main body. Never had one come undone.

Subedai wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 3:30 pm

goat major wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 8:29 am

Norman D. Landings wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 7:25 am
Good fun to assemble, and blissfully free of the rubber-track bullshit of the Airfix days of yore.

Oh yes they were a bloody nightmare - never fitted properly and wouldnt take any known form of glue

I just assembled a warlord Tiger. hard plastic tracks which came in 4 separate parts each and were a bitch to get aligned. Only after it was all finished did i remember that i hadnt painted the road wheel tyres. ffs

Nah, those Airfix tracks were simple. I just put the two little lugs into the holes and stapled the bo**ocks out of them. The stapled end went on the top of the wheels
under the main body. Never had one come undone.

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Hear hear, a method I learnt from, and was endorsed by the Airfix magazine, way back in the 1970's. The other was to insert the lugs into the holes and then melt them in place using the flattened tip of a screwdriver (non Phillips) which had been heated up. You had to give the tracks a good tugging beforehand to stretch them a bit.

Norman D. Landings wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 7:25 am just need to find some brush-bristles for aerials and cut some wire for co-ax MGs, then it’s spray undercoat time.

alternatively you could just engineer a small hole in the relevant area of the vehicle, heat up some of the mountain of sprue strips you will have left, gently stretch it and hey presto you have your radio aerials.

Tim Hall wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 7:55 pm Hear hear, a method I learnt from, and was endorsed by the Airfix magazine, way back in the 1970's. The other was to insert the lugs into the holes and then melt them in place using the flattened tip of a screwdriver (non Phillips) which had been heated up. You had to give the tracks a good tugging beforehand to stretch them a bit.

Yep, I tried that once but the stink from the burning candle coupled with the burning plastic did not go down too well with my mother. After that I only welded Airfix cavalry to the plastic base in the summer with the window open.

Currently "prepping" some Perry Brunswickers (Peninsula mode) for a Sharp Practice force - six 8-man groups of line infantry, two 6-man skirmish groups, 2 mounted and four foot officers, three sergeants, a musician, a cleric, and 10 casualties for the "shock" markers. Initial work includes filing down the bases, de-worming, de-flashing, and some greenstuff work converting light infantry hackles into the tall horsehair plumes on the skirmishers and mess tins into rolled greatcoats on all of the rank-and-file and NCOs. Hopefully some photos to follow.

Next step.....undercoating with Halfords grey primer, then a second spraying with matt black.

Quick knock up of a church from cheap 20mm railway kit. I like my buildings slightly smaller and looks just right. Nothing special, usual texture, dry brush bollocks. I’m now on the fun weathering stage that gets me perky.

Looks a little bit Silesian so will do for me.

Debating whether to go full hog and build a Leuthen type wall around it on a larger footprint base... or build it separately and another more normal churchyard that the church can drop into for flexibility.
The old wargame problem of Looks versus function.

Lovely work young Padiwan. Definitely suitable for Mittel Europa.

Looks Gaynors' knickers to me!